Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparatus will be intricate and the experiment laborious. Says Dr. Darwin: "Each successive stage in producing cold has called for greater efforts and has on the whole produced less results." But scientists may find that at a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, certain sub stances become permanent magnets ; they may find nothing. They do not know for sure what they will find, and that is the lure. If England survives they will keep going...
...apparatus which wakes a drowsing automobile driver by blowing ammonia vapor into his face when he relaxes his grip on the wheel...
...also do away with the equally hallowed custom of heat racing (two out of three heats to decide the winner instead of one race). They will lay out a half-mile track, popular with railbirds because the horses pass the grandstand twice, and install an electric tote board and apparatus for camera finishes. Besides these innovations, Roosevelt's races will be run at night, under spotlights...
That afternoon, William Strachan, an electrician, had stepped into the room which held the ventilating apparatus, on the second floor of the British Pavilion, for a casual inspection, had noticed on the floor a small, buff-colored bag. Remembering that he had seen it there the day before, he bent over it. It was ticking. Detectives William Federer and Fred Morelock were summoned, and Morelock carried the bag through the British Pavilion, through crowds of sightseers, outside, around the Italian Pavilion, to a deserted spot near the Polish Building, where he set it down...
...need, will defend to the death their native soils, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though a large tract of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule...